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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS AND PLANNING BOARD <br />PUBLIC HEARING AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 21, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. C.3.b <br />SUBJECT: Child Day Care Facilities Zoning Text Amendments <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) <br />ATTACHMENTS: <br />1. An ordinance amending the Orange <br />County Zoning Ordinance <br />2. Inventory of Day Care Facilities <br />3. Inventory of Centers for 3 - 12 Children <br />Located in a Residence <br />4, Map of Licensed Child Day Care Facilities <br />in Orange County <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Craig Benedict, 245 2592 <br />Glenn Bowles, 245 2577 <br />PURPOSE: To consider proposed amendments to the zoning ordinance regarding child day <br />care facilities. <br />BACKGROUND: State administrative laws and regulations regarding child day care facilities <br />have continued to evolve and change since the County Board last amended its zoning <br />regulations in 1991, Planning staff met with representatives of the North Carolina Division of <br />Child Development in May 1999 and again do July 21, 2005 to discuss the differences in <br />language between Orange County and State child day care regulations, Consensus of the <br />groups is that amending the language of the child care provisions and definitions of the Zoning <br />Ordinance is needed to provide consistency in laws for day care providers, users of day care <br />facilities and the general public, The attached zoning text amendments bring the definitions <br />and provisions for Child Care Facilities in Orange County into agreement with those of the <br />State. <br />Language differences in the Orange County Zoning Ordinance and respective licensing <br />provisions of the North Carolina General Statutes results from use of unlike terminology and <br />standards, Zoning Ordinance language in Sections 4,3 Permitted Use Table, 6,27 Large Day <br />Care Homes, 8.8.16 Day Care Facilities, Section 10.4 Off-Street Parking Requirements, and <br />Article 22 Definitions are dissimilar to that found in Article 7, Chapter 110 of the North Catalina <br />General Statutes, Child Care Facilities, as amended. Staff has attached for reference the <br />proposed amendments addressing these revisions, <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: No financial impact at this time with human resources being used from <br />existing department staffs. <br />is+' uur~m hraeie< I'h mm . Dn'+.TutCr.. (f , i'u6Lt I k mi ! `Ntr, :' I i.6~id1 to ri::va A;r hti. d :.nu l i I-I ]-tii) dot <br />